Speckled Wood
Back text: This butterfly likes to frequent quiet places where the sun’s rays filter through a canopy of foilage. Shady lanes and rides in woos are some of its favourite haunts.
Red Admiral
Back text: Luxuriant and vivid contrasts of black, white, scarlet and brown make this one of the most striking and beautiful of our butterflies. Its range extends throughout the British Isles.
Small Tortoiseshell
Back text: This is one of the most widespread and prettiest of our native butterflies. It has a charming appearance as it sits on a flower in the sunlight with it’s wings open.
Common Blue
Back text: The male is blue with a tinge of violet or mauve in it’s composition. The female, in contrast, is most often brown with some blue scales on the base of it’s wings.
Orange-tip
Back text: Only the male butterfly has the patches of orange on the tips of it’s wings. In the female these are replaced by smaller patches of grey.
Clouded Yellow
Back text: This migrant species is a fairly frequent visitor from southern Europe. In good years flights reach our shores in the spring and two successive broods may be raised.